From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.smollmSubject: SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 69cb519Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Image text to text model with 256M parameters. Safetensors weights, 150 MB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.
256M params 150 MB SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 256M Size 150 MB Formats safetensors Task image text to text License Apache-2.0 permissive
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$ fw get mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit
# manifest sha256 9651f0dc154b… · 150 MB · 14 files
$ fw verify ./SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bitHosted (signed) mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit Last check: 2026-11-15 03:37 UTC
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Size 150 MB
Weights 145 MB (safetensors)
Parameters 256M
Formats safetensors
Task image text to text
License Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files 14, each with a sha256
Publisher mlx-community
Added 2026-11-15
Section alt.freeweights.smollm Lineage
Original release from the publisher.
Base model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
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Model card From the publisher at commit
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This model was converted to MLX format from HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct using mlx-vlm version 0.1.11 . Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.
Use with mlx#
pip install -U mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit --max-tokens 100 --temp 0.0 --prompt "Describe this image." --image <path_to_image> Files 14 files · 150 MB Weights 145 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 14 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.52 KB 11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361 README.md 777 B 565973dd62810ad9065c87622be9c3ca50ec0a57daed2492ac3313a6ce4640c5 added_tokens.json 4.74 KB 74135b8664b56088c0006f1c8e848d79a8eba003411f72ebf1dc2ee96227be3a chat_template.json 430 B b585e3598909a5687f9f9d738d35223724dedef256b9b274e1cbfb32b13c74bf config.json 10.2 KB 8cc51e5143d5c34befeb7f04acae1a62a3653b33736ad411dbf2893c2c201a29 merges.txt 466 KB 0b54e8aa4e53d5383e2e4bc635a56b43f9647f7b13832d5d9ecd8f82dac4f510 model.safetensors 145 MB a283e0ef139e8a31fe5dc25bcdb0f3ee4ecf28aa6820840e49eb3519cdbec3e6 model.safetensors.index.json 83.9 KB 1ccc2a4b4b8161e45db1af88983558b821470ccadd83633a6098ebead34b03df preprocessor_config.json 486 B 6cb6e36d6fcb88ca1502c4a26750715dc3e7dedddc9a8f17b27d8d167d1457e7 processor_config.json 68 B e7bff42da73ae9eec9042ef20e066e11f1ee20f025358ff79131e3c0fb549b46 special_tokens_map.json 1.07 KB aa0ff906077086dfa9734a7f97f68c825877a48f9468807be65504495cdeef09 tokenizer.json 3.55 MB 5ece781dc8d2b2f3e2f289ca0ae50b17cfc27dd27bfe7971bb8241e0b964331a tokenizer_config.json 28.3 KB 2c6007006ca9ed791dee349ce3f69f65bdc33e12fc42ad1faff590b0302611a5 vocab.json 801 KB 82b84012e3add4d01d12ba14442026e49b8cbbaead1f79ecf3d919784f82dc79
Versions Each time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commit Date Contents 69cb5195f4 pinned now 2026-11-15 03:37 UTC 14 files · 150 MB
Use it fw
$ fw get mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit
# manifest sha256 9651f0dc154b… · 150 MB · 14 files
$ fw verify ./SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bitfw.py Checks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit.json --dir ./SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit
$ python3 fw.py verify ./SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit ./mlx-community__SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit --revision 69cb5195f414ceb6398c5581254673d2c6c8d0d8 --local-dir ./SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bittransformers Load the weights in Python.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit", revision="69cb5195f414ceb6398c5581254673d2c6c8d0d8")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit", revision="69cb5195f414ceb6398c5581254673d2c6c8d0d8", device_map="auto")vLLM Serve an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit --revision 69cb5195f414ceb6398c5581254673d2c6c8d0d8License Name Apache License 2.0 Id Apache-2.0 Class Permissive Redistribution yes Listing Hosted (signed) Decided License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15 Text in README.md Text sha256 565973dd62810ad9065c87622be9c3ca50ec0a57daed2492ac3313a6ce4640c5 Terms gate No extra terms beyond the license. Read the license text
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Provenance From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.smollmSubject: SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 69cb519Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ How to verify
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq
$ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download
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Get it
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-4bitOpen in Freeweights Studio Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.
135M params 272 MB 135M-lc-100k-rope-12B safetensors permissive Facts Params 135M Size 272 MB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: HuggingFaceTB <huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB> Subject: 135M-lc-100k-rope-12B smollm 2.09 GB Biggie-SmoLlm-0.4B gguf permissive Facts Params not stated Size 2.09 GB Formats gguf Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: nisten <huggingface.co/nisten> Subject: Biggie-SmoLlm-0.4B smollm 4.29 GB Biggie-SmoLlm-0.4B-ONNX onnx permissive Facts Params not stated Size 4.29 GB Formats onnx Task text generation License unknown permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/onnx-community> Subject: Biggie-SmoLlm-0.4B-ONNX 1.8B params 1.04 GB SmolLM-1.7B-bnb-4bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 1.8B Size 1.04 GB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/unsloth> Subject: SmolLM-1.7B-bnb-4bit 1.7B params 3.43 GB SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct safetensors permissive Facts Params 1.7B Size 3.43 GB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/unsloth> Subject: SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct 138M params 115 MB SmolLM-135M-bnb-4bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 138M Size 115 MB Formats safetensors Task text generation License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/unsloth> Subject: SmolLM-135M-bnb-4bit
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